Aug 2, 2014
Responding to the European Commission’s request for stakeholder submissions on the post-2020 carbon leakage provisions, Sandbag made clear that the current rules (free allocation benchmarked against historical production for a fixed baseline year) is failing to...
Jul 4, 2014
With Carbon Market Watch, this short and simple brochure accompanies our event in Brussels introducing new MEPs to the basics of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
Mar 31, 2014
As European leaders meet today to discuss Europe’s next energy and climate framework, Poland is again poised to delay or block efforts to agree a 2030 climate target. But new research conducted by Sandbag finds that Poland has consistently gained preferential access...
Mar 2, 2014
EU Member States are at loggerheads over the need for a 2030 renewable energy target. A binding Decarbonisation Obligation or Emissions Performance Standard might be a way to achieve the same aims of reducing carbon emissions and supporting investor confidence in the...
Feb 2, 2014
The carbon budgets set to help deliver Europe’s climate targets risk becoming an accounting fudge that allows these targets to be exceeded. There are now enough spare carbon allowances in the EU emissions trading scheme and the EU Effort Sharing Decision to allow...
